On Sunday, abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kan. He was one of a handful of doctors in the U.S. who performed late-term abortions and for decades had been a target of virulent criticism from antiabortion activists. His clinic had been bombed and vandalized, and in 1993 he was shot in both arms in a failed assassination attempt. Tiller's alleged killer, Scott Roeder, is a long-time radical antiabortion activist with reported ties to a militant antigovernment organization called the Freemen.

Within hours after the murder, every antiabortion group in the country denounced the attack. Robert P. George, a leading Catholic intellectual opponent of abortion, wrote that "George Tiller's life was precious" and characterized his murder as "a gravely wicked thing." He called on his fellow abortion opponents to "teach that violence against abortionists is not the answer to the violence of abortion."

Even Operation Rescue, the extreme antiabortion group that organized a six-week blockade of Tiller's office in 1991, issued a statement condemning the murder. "We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning," Troy Newman, the organization's president, said.

These unqualified reproaches are nothing new. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed violence against abortion providers. That has never stopped opportunistic prochoice activists, however, from conflating their passionate rhetoric with the behavior of individual criminals. True to form, on Sunday, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star accused anyone who had criticized Tiller as a murderer (Tiller aborted healthy, nine-month old fetuses) of being an "accomplice" to his death.

If those who “live by the sword, die by the sword” as Jesus said, then it seems to me that someone must pick up the sword to cause this to happen.

This was something I put forth in the discussions I got into regarding the Iraq war. I felt that the coalition forces were appointed to take care of Saddam Hussein. He lived by the sword, and someone had to carry out his dying by the sword.

It’s because we’ve been taken back (and “held-hostage” by a P.C. post modern culture where if you critize the left you are emasculated, but not if you criticize the right). What we need is someone with *alls, someone with “True Grit”. Where’s John Wayne?..

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posted on 06/02/2009 8:32:14 PM PDT
by JSDude1
(DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)

One Army recruiter died and another was injured when a Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot the soldiers in Little Rock, police say.

Carlos Bledsoe, 24, of Little Rock, who was known as Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, was arrested on I-630 shortly after the soldiers were shot outside a recruiting office about 10:30 a.m. CT, police said. An assault rifle was recovered.

This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and thats why he did what he did, Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said in a phone interview with USA TODAY. He has converted to (Islam) here in the past few years.

"What comes to mind is that the first thing Brown did at the Harper's Ferry terminal was to kill a black man."

It is not clear who killed Hayward Shepherd, the black baggage handler or why, but that is irrelevant. Brown became a symbol and was revered because he made slavery an equivalent evil to his actions. Likewise Roeder has equated the murder of an abortionist with the murder of 60,000 babies by Tiller, if not in the hearts and minds, certainly in the dialog of the American public.

Is James Kirchick from the WSJ condemning the senseless murder of an American soldier in Little Rock, Arkansas, perpetrated by a Muslim terrorist? Is he suggesting the antiwar left is somehow responsible for his motivations?

The left is quick to hold all Christians accountable for the misdeeds of one individual, but refuse to hold Muslims accountable, even for their own misdeeds. It’s the kind of rationalizing that spawned the Final Solution.

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